Microsoft has been preparing the launch of the Surface Pro for some time now, and up until now, it was not really clear when the device running Windows 8 Pro would be available. While Microsoft did make a statement that it would be about 3 months after the general availability of Windows 8, it was [...]

If you have Steam installed chance is that you have at least one, more often than not a couple of games installed on your system as well. These games may take up a lot of space on the drives they are installed on, and there does not seem to be a lot you can do [...]

A compass is a relic of the past in times where GPS seems to be all-present, right? Wrong. While you may use GPS for a lot of things, it requires that your phone, tablet or other type of electronic device is connected to a network to retrieve data about its position. If there is no [...]

Finding and removing malware that ran on a PC is often only the first step of recovery. Depending on the malware that successfully attacked the system it may be necessary to clean-up the changes that it made to the computer. A basic example would be malware that disabled features like the task manager or Registry [...]

I have received my verification email more than 24 hours after I signed up for the new Mega file hosting site and finally got to browse around and test its features. Everything you do on Mega is happening in the browser right now as there are no mobile apps or desktop clients available at the [...]

I can’t really say when Mozilla made the decision to move and combine the stop and reload buttons in Firefox, only that this did happen in the past. The new button has been moved to the right edge of the address bar of the browser. It displays stop when a page is still loading and [...]

Bookmarks are both my bread and butter and also the bane of my existence. Honestly, I began collecting them in the mid 90′s and still have the same file, although a steadily added-to version of it. In the early days I backed up the file to a CD and later an external hard drive. Then Xmarks [...]

Have you ever had a friend over who wanted to use your computer to look something up on the Internet? Or did you use your laptop for a presentation at work or school and had to use the Firefox browser as part of it? These situations can become embarrassing if the browsing history reveals more [...]

Making sure that your website is not used for anything shady is one of the most important tasks of being a webmaster. If you are making a living from a site, it is even probably the most important thing after making sure the site is up and running. There are a couple of attack vectors [...]